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Getting Started with Maya

> Character Setup

>  Lesson 1:  Skeletons and kinematics

Open the scene for the lesson

In this lesson, you’ll work with a scene that we created for your use. The scene contains a human character. In the remainder of the lesson, you’ll create and animate a skeleton for the character.

To open the scene

1. Make sure you’ve done the steps in Preparing for the lessons.
2. Open the scene named Skeletons.mb.

You can open the scene named Skeletons.mb from the Maya DVD or from the drive where you copied the Getting Started with Maya data files.

The character displayed in the scene, Jackie, is a template, so you cannot unintentionally select it during the lesson. Jackie was modeled in the Da Vinci pose, the position that’s easiest for creating a skeleton.